Ritam Chaurey

Learning spillovers between firms are widely seen as important but hard to estimate cleanly. We ran an experiment with energy-efficient motors in the Dhaka leather-goods sector. Links to non-technical summary and video below. With @rchaurey, @Gaurav__Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma.

Claude Code Confessions-- Opus 4.5 failed to replicate the summary stats table exactly, even after detailed step-wise instructions in the planning model. When grilled, regretfully confesses to generating a random variable. The RA we wish for, but def not the one we can trust?

Very excited to be organising this workshop! Do join us if you are in Delhi NCR on December 17th! @AnanyaVC @kathuria_rajat @thesamasher @kanmahajan @vidhyasrajan #pavelchakraborty @p_chatterjee @nandwani_bharti @rchaurey @Yogeshwarbharat

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20713 Social Learning among Urban Manufacturing Firms: Energy-Efficient Motors in Bangladesh @rchaurey, @Gaurav__Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma @WorldBank, @EricVerhoogen ow.ly/jsWO50X7ORZ #CEPR_DE #CEPR_ITRE #EconTwitter

Knowledge spillovers are key to growth but hard to estimate. Randomly giving out energy-efficient motors to leather-goods firms in Bangladesh led to strong local spillovers, from @rchaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, Siddharth Sharma, and @EricVerhoogen nber.org/papers/w34296

Those who watched this series will NEVER FORGET it 🙌

Amid debates about the #H1Bvisa, read this article by @rchaurey, @kanmahajan & Shekhar Tomar which finds that ⬆️ uncertainty around US immigration policies – without any change in visa quotas/procedures – caused firms to relocate jobs from US ➡️ India ideasforindia.in/topics/miscell…

US immigration policy uncertainty drives job relocation to India Yesterday @rchaurey @SAISHopkins @kanmahajan @AshokaUniv & Shekhar Tomar @ISBedu outlined how restrictive immigration rhetoric may lead to offshoring rather than promote domestic employment: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

🆕 US immigration policy uncertainty drives job relocation to India Today, @rchaurey @SAISHopkins, @kanmahajan @AshokaUniv & Shekhar Tomar @ISBedu outline how restrictive immigration rhetoric may lead to offshoring rather than promote domestic employment: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

RA job alert (India-based) Farzana Afridi (ISI Delhi) and I are hiring a India-based RA. Preferably, please apply before Sep 30. Job description —tinyurl.com/bde3trr7 Google form - forms.gle/RAgf32oVSBtgDS… Please share with your network. @econ_ra @econ_ra_india @SERI_Network

What a win!! @usacricket

The Indian Economic Censuses show that an increase in tradable services employment boosts non-tradable services employment too, especially for female workers & female-owned firms. Interesting findings from a recent @ncaer IPF paper: ncaer.org/wp-content/upl…

How Does Democracy Cause Growth? Evidence from Firms During Indonesia's Democratic Transition. In the May 2023 issue, by Ama Baafra Abeberese, Prabhat Barnwal (@prabhatbarnwal), Ritam Chaurey (@rchaurey), and Priya Mukherjee (@p_mukherj). zurl.co/hwxL

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#EconTwitter: My coauthors and I are urgently looking for a #predoc for an exciting #RCT at scale (an entire state in India) in Andhra Pradesh. Please apply ASAP! JD: dropbox.com/s/0vio5n18r2j6… @econ_ra @WomenInEcon @econgaurav @AbhiroopMukho @rchaurey @raghavrakesh @JPAL_SA

@FilipeCampante It’s been at another level

At some point Rajasthan Royals will stop backing Riyan Parag. The question is when. Parag is not Russell, SKY, or Shaw, who have excellent records, and hence need to be backed if they fail while taking risks in a high-risk format. Parag has a SR of 124 and an economy of 10.70.

I am trying to understand why Rajasthan back Riyan. A few low scores while trying to slog is fine in T20. The problem is, he strikes at 124 in the IPL. Probably not much evidence of risk-taking. And bowls 3 balls (not overs) per match. Surely SR 124 at #5/#6 isn't a role?

Implicit costs of factor allocation for Indian firms ideasforindia.in/topics/product… via @Ideas4India

I was preparing for a talk I'm giving on firm-level government support policies, & was asked about evidence on policies for green technology adoption and innovation for firms in developing countries - there isn't much, let me know what I'm missing blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…